Mr. Harrington is President and Co-Founder of Grant Street Group. Prior to forming the Company, he and his partner, Dan Veres, were principals of Grant Street Advisors, an independent financial advisor to municipal and non-profit bond issuers. During the first 15 years of his professional career Mr. Harrington was an investment banker at both Wall Street and regional firms.
Mr. Harrington received his undergraduate degree from Georgetown University and his MBA from Carnegie-Mellon University.
Dan Veres is Executive Vice President, Chief Operating Officer and Co-Founder of Grant Street Group. He is responsible for operating units within Grant Street Group including auction operations, project management and information technology. Before joining with Myles Harrington to form Grant Street Advisors and Grant Street Group, he was an Associate Vice President at Wheat First Butcher Singer (now Wachovia Securities) in the Pittsburgh Public Finance office. Dan has over 20 years of public finance experience during which time he has worked on numerous tax-exempt and taxable municipal issues in a variety of sectors.
Dan served as an aviator and Captain in the United States Army subsequent to receiving a graduate MBA degree in 1989 from the University of Pittsburgh's Katz Graduate School of Business. He is registered as a General Securities Representative and Government Securities Principal with FINRA.
Mr. Haskins joined Grant Street Group as CFO in June 1999. Prior to joining Grant Street Group, he held financial positions at Fisher Scientific International since September 1998. From 1995 to 1998, he was Director of Finance at Tippins Incorporated. Before Tippins, he was manager of financial planning at Black Box Corporation and the Carbide/Graphite Group. Mr. Haskins' experience includes two leveraged buyouts, a capital restructuring and an initial public offering (IPO).
Mr. Haskins received a BA from Washington & Jefferson College and an MBA from the University of Pittsburgh's Katz Graduate School of Business. He is also a Certified Management Accountant (CMA).
Mr. Burnette joined Grant Street Group in 2000 and became Chief Technology Officer in 2001. Previously, he served as a Consultant for Consumers Energy in Jackson, Michigan and as a Research Software Developer at Jet Propulsion Laboratory (JPL) in Pasadena, California, where he received four NASA technical achievement awards.
Fred led GSG's efforts in drafting TaxSys' initial functional requirements and subsequent design and currently serves as TaxSys Product Manager, managing GSG's TaxSys team.
Mr. Burnette received his undergraduate degree in Computer Science from Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute and a Master's degree in Computer Science from the University of Southern California.
Pierre joined Grant Street Group in 2009 as a Software Developer on TaxSys and is now Director of Software Development. He manages Grant Street Group's software development team and supports all of Grant Street's web applications.
Prior to joining Grant Street Group, Pierre was Senior Design & Development Manager at Barclays Global Investors in San Francisco where he led an international team of 15 Developers located in Sydney, Tokyo, Singapore, London, and San Francisco. During his four years at Barclays Global Investors, in addition to his Development Manager role, Pierre was responsible for the Market Data platform, from design to implementation. The Market Data Platform is one of the most critical platforms at Barclays Global Investors, used throughout the investment process.
Prior to this, Pierre worked in other various roles and organizations, including Development Manager at Fotango in London (a subsidiary of Canon Europe) and as a Nuclear Power Plant Operator for Électricité de France (EDF). Pierre implemented his first commercial web site in 1997.
Pierre has an undergraduate degree from École Catholique des Arts et Metiers (ECAM) in France (a college that specializes in Mechanics and Thermodynamics). In addition, he has a Masters Degree in Engineering from École Nationale Supérieure d'Arts et Métiers (ENSAM) in France.
Bob wrote the first line of code for Grant Street Group in November 1996. Under his leadership, the Software Development group grew to 20 developers and a dozen production web applications totaling over 1.5 million lines of code, powering financial transactions on hundreds of web sites. Bob currently leads Grant Street Group's PaymentExpress™ software development team and manages all related technology as well as Payment Card Industry (PCI) Compliance. Grant Street Group has achieved a Level 1 Service Provider certification.
Bob graduated cum laude from NC State with a Bachelor of Science degree in Mathematics and a minor in Physics.
Tom has over 10 years experience in Human Resources and Staffing. He previously worked at Carnegie Mellon University where he was the Senior Human Resources Administrator. There he specialized in managing and recruiting technical professionals for the Software Engineering Institute, a division of Carnegie Mellon University. Previous to Carnegie Mellon University, Tom worked for Pittsburgh Business Consultants where he managed both the Human Resources and Recruiting activities.
Tom has an Active DoD Secret Security Clearance, has been certified by AIRS for Internet recruiting and also has his certification in Mediation for resolving workplace conflicts. He received an Associate of Science in Business Management from Community College of Allegheny County with honors.